Volume 1

A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1900-1922
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    circumfferens of the place . . . that hit is most evident that suche a crock they found, w’ch is thought to have continuede ther thes tvvoo hundrethe yeres. For further consideration whereof I have sente unto yo’r hono’r the depositions of suche as were examinede before me. And am redye tor my parte to execute your L.’s ffurther comaundement in this matter, or any other cause wherin I may do your L. any service. But I gather that the troth of this matter will nev[er] be bolted out w'thout that the priste be examinede and the parties also manisede [menaced] withe some torto’r or extremitie. All w’ch I remitte to yo’r L. ffurther discretion. And for this tyme do most humbly take my leave of yo’r good Lordshippe. Written at Wiston the xth daye of September 1572. Yo’r L. most assured and poore kynysman at commaundement, John Wogan. [120] 18. (a) f. 57. Letter from Sir William Pickering to lord Burghley; respecting the sale of Vale Crucis abbey; 22 Jan. 1573. Lloyd, Powys Fadog, vi, 177. (1b) ff. 86-89. Letter from William Herle to lord Burghley; proposing the appointment of a commission on con- cealed lands in Wales ; 18 Dec. 1574. [121J 21. (<2) ff. 29-30b. Letter from William Herle to lord Burghley; his proceedings in Wales under the commission for concealments; 4 Nov. 1575. (jb) ff. 46-47. The same to the same; concerning [inter alia] a book of the survey of Brecknock ; 30 Dec. 1575- Extract : “ There is co[me] to mi hands, me right honorable good L., a booke of S’rvey of ye Lordship of Brecknock in man’r and fforme of a gen’rall rentall w’th certain other partycularityes y’t app’tain to ye same.” 1 (c) ff. 64-65$. Richard Price, of Brecknock, to lord Burghley; concerning the abuse of a payment called comortha, and of the petty tyrranies of the bailiffs of the manor and hundred courts ; 31 Jan. 1575- 1 Amongst the class of Rentals and Surveys at the Public Record Office is a custumal of the lordship of Builth of the 1st Edward VI, said to be a translation from the Welsh, and a valor of the same manor of the reign of Henry VIII is in the same repository. Either of these may be the book that came into the hands of Mr. William Herle. No survey of Brecknock has, up to the present (June 1899), been calendared amongst the Cecil papers by the Historical Manuscripts Com- missioners.